The Hearing Loss Association of America—Adams/York chapter is a
non-profit organization dedicated to helping people with hearing loss
successfully cope with their hearing losses.
All our meetings are free and you are most welcome to attend and bring your
family or friends. You will fit right in as you will be among people who also
have hearing losses.
Information on Our Next Meeting
Meeting Schedule for 2009
Directions to Meeting Location
Accessibility Information
Contact Information
Information on Our Next Meeting
Fire Safety for People with Hearing Loss
Many hard of hearing people cannot hear the typical
smoke detectors’ high-pitched warning sounds because they have
corresponding high-frequency hearing losses. Thus, they are most
vulnerable to night-time fires when their hearing aids and cochlear
implants are peacefully reposing on their bed tables beside them while
their smoke detectors futilely try to warn them of impending doom.
That's the bad news.
The good news is that at the October meeting of the
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)—Adams/York chapter, hearing
loss coping skills specialist, Neil Bauman, Ph.D., will discuss fire
safety as it pertains to hard of hearing people, and will demonstrate
some of the wonderful new fire safety technology that has just become
available over the summer. These new fire safety systems are almost
guaranteed to waken even the most hard of hearing person. You won't want
to miss Dr. Neil’s presentation and convincing demonstration.
The meeting will be held on Thursday October 22,
2009 at 2:00 PM in the Nicarry Meetinghouse at Cross Keys Village—The
Brethren Home Community, 2990 Carlisle Pike in New Oxford. Come and
bring a hard of hearing family member or friend (and your questions)
with you. You are all welcome. There is no charge!
For further information, contact Neil Bauman at 717-993-8555 or email
him at
neil@hearinglosshelp.com. You can get detailed directions and other
information at
http://www.adamsyorkhlaa.org
(which is right here so don't go anywhere—just scroll up and down).
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Upcoming Events
Next meeting: October 22. Fire Safety for Hard of Hearing People
Final meeting of 2009: Nov 24th Note: this is a Tuesday, not a
Thursday.
First meeting of 2010: Feb 25th.
Meeting Schedule for 2009
We meet according to the following schedule:
Fourth Thursday of the month:
Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct
Last Tuesday of the month: Nov
No meetings: Jul, Aug, Dec, Jan
Directions to Meeting Location
Meetings are held in the Nicarry Meetinghouse of the Brethren Home Community
located at the south-west corner of the intersection of Routes 30 and 94
(approximately 5 miles north of Hanover, PA; 12 miles east of Gettysburg; or 25
miles west of York).
To get to the Nicarry Meeting house, from Route 30, turn south into the back
entrance of the Brethren Home Community (approximately 1 block west of the
traffic light at Routes 30 and 94—the name is on the gatepost at the entrance.)
The Nicarry Meeting house is the second building on your left. (It has a
steep green roof). The parking lot is in front of it (on your left).
Go in the main entrance, turn left and go down the hall to where it widens
(you'll see chairs and sofas there). The meeting room is immediately to your
left through either sets of doors. There are signs on both sets of doors.
Meetings are Accessible
Meetings are accessible to hard of hearing people and people in
wheelchairs.
If you are hard of hearing, you can:
- Hear crystal-clear sound through the room loop (if you have t-coils on
your hearing aids).
- Hear though the public address system.
- Sit near the speaker and speechread.
- We have real-time captioning on a screen at
the front (when our captionist can make it—sometimes she has to work at that
time).
Contact Information
Contact the chapter coordinator for more information.
Neil Bauman
49 Piston Court
Stewartstown, PA 17363
Phone: 717-993-8555
Email: neil@hearinglosshelp.com
The Adams/York HLAA chapter website is right here at
http:/www.adamsyorkhlaa.org.
This website is sponsored by:
The Center for Hearing Loss Help
http://www.hearinglosshelp.com "where
you will receive the information, support and counsel
you need
in order to live
an exciting and fulfilling life
in spite of your hearing loss"
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